The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye has said that there was need to deploy more technology that would help to reduce opportunity for crime. Owasanoye said this at the 2-day joint operations of ICPC and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on effective ...
One of the legacies of that avatar of human freedom, Gani Fawehinmi, is the liberalisation of the democratic space. Among Gani’s many legal battles were the ones fought in favour of registration of political parties without the unconstitutional impediments. Cases were won by organisations wishing to be registered as political ...
When the news filtered in on Wednesday about the resignation of Peter Obi, former Anambra governor and one of the top Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirants, it was like a whirlwind, The dumping of the PDP, a party he jointly flagged the flag in the 2019 elections as the ...
The Goodluck Jonathan Foundation on Wednesday joined Africans across the world to celebrate this year’s Africa Day. Development stakeholders who have shown genuine commitment to advancing the continent’s causes also joined in the celebration. The Goodluck Foundation’s Communications Officer, Mr Wealth Ominabo, stated in Yenagoa that former President Jonathan noted ...
Nigeria`s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Mahmood-Abubakar, has urged beekeepers to embrace best standards and practices that can stimulate the export of honey to boost the economy through opportunities in the AfCFTA. The minister, speaking at the 3rd Nigerian Youth Beekeepers Conference in Abuja on Tuesday, said ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the current democracy in Nigeria is being threatened by the predominance of money politics. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu,said this at a one-day colloquim on Emerging Issues that will Shape the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria organised by the Centre for Democracy ...
The Federal Government on Wednesday called for European Unions` support to ensure effective implementation of Climate Change Act and other environmental policies to achieve a healthy environment in the country. Alhaji Mohammed Abdullahi, Minister of Environment, made the call when Amb. Samuela Isopi, Head of the EU Delegation to Nigeria, ...
The Federal Government says it will ban all substances that are not ozone-friendly in accordance with the Montreal Protocol Agreement, which Nigeria is a signatory to, by Jan. 1, 2023. These substances include refrigerators, air conditioners, generators, water dispensers, photocopiers, among others. The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty designed ...
The news about purported sack of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, began to trend early on Wednesday. The social media was awash with news, trending in various WhatsApp groups. Some online media houses had, earlier published unconfirmed reports of the purported sack of the CBN governor ...
Polygamy is like a birthright to the men in a traditional African society. A man is at liberty to marry as many women is he so wishes and is able bring home under his roof. The ability here is not actually in terms of financial capability to maintain all the ...
Col. Sambo Dasuki, a retired Nigerian military officer who served as National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan have again been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC on Monday re-arraigned the former NSA, together with the former Finance Minister, Bashir Yaguda and three others in ...
As the results of the primaries of the various political parties begins to emerge, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have just recorded a seating senator who has lost the fight to retain his seat. This emerged as Senator Ayo Akinyelure of PDP representing the Ondo Central constituency on Monday lost ...
Out-of-school children constitute security risk in Nigeria.” – Senator Lawan, Senate President, VANGUARD, March 11, p 44. I did not know whether to laugh or cry about that news report. Lawan, Ph.D, well-educated in any country on earth, and a leader in the North for some time, is suddenly discovering, ...
For long some military analysts have feared the lunch of nukes by President Putin in Ukraine, especially following his faltering military campaign in an avoidable war he personally choose to wedge against all sense of reason. An expert in Moscow and an investigative journalist, Christo Grozev have suggested that senior ...
Experts in Russian affairs and security matters are almost sure that the world is nearing a post Putin Russia, and that some top officials in Russian`s security circle are seeking ways to safely run away from the country with their families. They also say there are clear indications that Putin`s ...
It took only 10 days for a woman to lose her man and the father of her two children to a Ukrainian refugee who they brought in from Ukraine to live with them in the UK under the UK government`s Home for Ukraine program, the Sun has reported. She was ...
Delta Government has approved the sum of N5.1 billion for the construction of an International Conference Centre in Asaba. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting presided over by Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa on Thursday in ...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says the suspended Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) Valuation on imported vehicles to be deployed on Friday has been imputed with human face values. The Controller Valuation of NCS headquarters, Comptroller Anthony Udenze, made this known at a sensitisation programme ahead of the relaunch of VIN ...
Nnamdi Kanu was today denied his bail application at the Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Justice Binta Nyako. The trial continued on Wednesday with more twists from the Federal Government, which now seeks to deny the IPOB leader the right of a counsel and legal representation in the ...
The trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) today continue at the Federal High Court in Abuja with new twists from the Federal Government. The IPOB leader who was abducted in Kenya and brought to Nigeria by agents of the Nigerian government have ...
The United States of America says it will impose visa restrictions on anyone who promotes violence as Nigeria holds its general elections in 2023. America’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Mr Michael Gonzales, handed out the warning at an international conference with the theme: “United States Policy and ...
Indications are beginning to emerge that the IPOB leader Mazi Namdi Kanu may soon have the opportunity to address his members in relation to the rising insecurity in the South Eastern region of Nigeria. This is following a recent meeting between Governor Soludo of Anambra State and the leader of ...
In a meeting with the new governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is said to have decried the wanton and senseless killings ongoing in his home nation, the South Eastern part of Nigeria. This was disclosed to ...
The Nigerian South East and South South is certainly not having their best days now. For a while now, it has been one bad news after another, as if armed men are competing for attention or looking for how to outdo one another in the business of crime. A new-armed ...
The South East is in continuous decline from self-inflicted injuries, claims the BNP founder Nigeria`s South East, a region predominated by the Igbos and the larger chunk of the Biafran territory is seriously in deep decline and crime is the major cause of this decline. The pain of this decline ...
The Islamic terrorists who killed Deborah Samuel may have had their way snuffing the life out of a fellow student, but they will live their remaining miserable lives pondering on the last words of their late victim. Deborah Samuel is said to have asked her killers very simply as they ...
Prof Yemi Osibanjo, the Nigerian Vice President has finally condemned the killing of a Christian student in the Northern state of Sokoto by some gang of Islamic bandits on Thursday. The lady identified as Deborah Samuel was until her painful death in the hands of the terrorists a second-year student ...
The governor of Edo State,Godwin Obaseki, on Friday in Benin City cried out that the cases of drug abuse is worsening in the state. He blamed this increasing rate of drug abuse in the state on the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU) strike. Reviewing the state’s security situation ...
The United Kingdom through their diplomatic mission in Abuja - the British High Commission, has clarified the country`s position on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which confirmed the explanations by Williams Ukonu. In a press release by the High Commission, which was obtained by our reporter, the UK completely ...
This a rejoinder to reporting about IPOB by some media houses on the 6th of May 2022, which includes Sahara Reporters and Channels Television. I will start from the summary of what my rejoinder will eventually be. The reason for this approach is informed by the grievousness of the report ...
